The day that we played on icy slides!
"I hope to play kitties in the forest."
"I hope to see the stream."
"I hope to help Mr. Sadowski cook."
We came in ready to work this morning. Our Kindness Elves, Poppy and Penny, left us pencils to use and then take home! All of us decided to use our pencils to write our journal entries for the day. "When I look at the pencils I think of our elves!" It was such a fun way to get us to write this morning.
Our walk up was challenging in certain parts. The rain that we have gotten recently has coated the forest in a lovely layer of ice. We worked hard to crawl, pull, and push our way up to our home base.
The fire that we light serves several purposes each week. We love to use it to cook tasty snacks. We also use it to stay warm. It was necessary today! We couldn't keep our gloves and mittens off for long because we could feel the cold quickly.
There were some fun discoveries to be made while we were playing. EVERYTHING was coated in a thick layer of ice which made sliding even more fun! There were even icicles hanging off of the rocks. Many of us spent most of our time climbing up and sliding down the steep rocks.
In the classroom we have been learning about Hanukkah! Since it was the fifth day of celebrating we made pancakes like last week. The difference was that we made potato pancakes - latkes! Before heading outside we all helped to mix and mash the potatoes so that we could cook them up over the fire.
Before heading inside we did some counting of our fingers! Since we all have ten we counted by tens around the fire and found out that there are 280 fingers between all of the kindergartners! We are getting more and more confident with our skip counting. This week was a little cold but we are already so excited to head back to the forest next week!
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